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Others may know about this, but it's new to me. I stumbled across it at of all places, DU. I believe it's Maryland Public Television.

Three suspects have been arrested on suspicion of looting a Walgreens and a Save Mart in Kingsburg amid the coronavirus outbreak, police said Monday. The suspects were identified by Kingsburg police as Ryan Tedesco, Erica Overton, and Brennon Overton, all of Ceres. They were arrested for two counts of grand theft, two counts of possession of stolen property and two counts of felony drug possession, according to a department news release. The trio also faces four counts of misdemeanor drug violations and “felony looting during a state of emergency.” Read more here: https://www.fresnobee.com/news/coronavirus/article241450441.html#storylink=cpy

Gov. Greg Abbott on Sunday expanded the state’s mandatory self-quarantine order for travel from coronavirus hot spots, including road travel out of Louisiana. The Texas Department of Public Safety will monitor interstates and other entry points into Texas to ensure that travelers out of Louisiana abide by the 14-day quarantine, or length of stay in Texas, whichever is shortest, Abbott said. Commercial travel will be exempt, he said. Abbott also expanded the mandatory quarantine order to include travelers on flights out of Miami, Atlanta, Detroit, Chicago and any airport in California and Washington state. Abbott’s previous quarantine order, issued Thursday,...

A decades-old anti-malaria drug holds promise as a treatment for coronavirus and is being tested in a major clinical trial. The University of Oxford is testing hydroxychloroquine on 3,000 high-risk coronavirus patients to see if it can alleviate the worst of the symptoms. The researchers are hopeful that because the drug reduces inflammation in malaria patients it could also help some people fight Covid-19 - since many of the worst cases of coronavirus involve inflammation. “This trial is aimed at those people who are at higher risk of complications but are not yet that sick that they need to go...

Melania Trump shared some terrific details Friday about how one can take an actual virtual tour of the White House by downloading a WH app on their phones. “If you love history, use your free time at home – while safely practicing social distancing – to explore the @WhiteHouse,” the first lady captioned her post on Instagram, along with a great photo of the WH. “You can take a fun & interactive tour & experience the historic rooms, grounds & gardens. Download the ‘WHExperience’ in the App Store & enjoy your virtual visit,” she added. Taking a look through the...

NEW YORK (AP) — New York state's coronavirus death toll is nearing 1,000, Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Sunday. The state accounts for more than 40% of coronavirus deaths in the U.S. The number of disease-related deaths in the state jumped to 965 from 728 on Saturday, Cuomo said. The vast majority have been in New York City. Figures released Sunday morning showed 678 coronavirus deaths in the city, which continues to be the epicenter of the pandemic in the U.S. The city had 161 deaths in a 24-hour period spanning Saturday to Sunday, Mayor Bill de Blasio said. Meanwhile, ambulances...

Doctors began prescribing off-label use and in doing so are replicating the clinical results in remarkable fashion. One doctor in Monroe, New York has treated in excess of 700 patients. As of this writing he’s lost zero patients to death, zero to intubation, and only two to hospitalization. Another doctor in New York City has treated in excess of 100 patients with zero deaths.

Gov. Gavin Newsom has called for “targeted testing” of the new coronavirus, arguing a strategic approach will help public health officials find hot spots and determine how and where the pandemic is spreading. But in the two decades leading up to the COVID-19 outbreak, 11 of California’s public health labs designed for the focused testing Newsom wants closed their doors. California now relies on 29 county and city public health labs, along with the California State Laboratory in Richmond, to serve 40 million people. It’s around “the same number we had in 1950,” said Kat DeBurgh, executive director of the...

The French government is arguably helping Big Pharma profit from the Covid-19 pandemic What’s going on in the fifth largest economy in the world arguably points to a major collusion scandal in which the French government is helping Big Pharma to profit from the expansion of Covid-19. Informed French citizens are absolutely furious about it. My initial question to a serious, unimpeachable Paris source, jurist Valerie Bugault, was about the liaisons dangereuses between Macronism and Big Pharma and especially about the mysterious “disappearance” – more likely outright theft – of all the stocks of chloroquine in possession of the French...

For the freedom you enjoyed yesterday... Thank the Veterans who served in The United States Armed Forces. Looking forward to tomorrow's freedom? Support The United States Armed Forces Today! ~ Hall of Heroes ~ Thomas R Norris Info from here.             Thomas Rolland Norris (born January 14, 1944) is a retired United States Navy SEAL who received the Medal of Honor for his ground rescue with the assistance of Petty Officer Third Class Nguyen Van Kiet of two downed pilots in Quang Tri Province, Vietnam on April 10, 1972 – April 13, 1972. At the time...

He Simply "Hates Christians": The Persecution of Christians: January 2020 by Raymond Ibrahim March 29, 2020 at 5:00 am Boko Haram... released another execution video. In it, a masked Muslim child holding a pistol appears standing behind a bound and kneeling hostage, later identified as Ropvil Daciya Dalep, a 22-year-old Christian... kidnapped on January 9 while traveling to his university, where he majored in biology. After chanting in Arabic and launching into an anti-Christian diatribe, the Muslim child proceeds to shoot Ropvil several times in the back of the head. — Independent Catholic News, January 23, 2020; Nigeria. On January...

A recent Johns Hopkins study claims more than 250,000 people in the U.S. die every year from medical errors. Other reports claim the numbers to be as high as 440,000.Medical errors are the third-leading cause of death after heart disease and cancer.Advocates are fighting back, pushing for greater legislation for patient safety. “My little angel” is how Christopher Jerry describes his daughter Emily.At just a year and a half, Emily was diagnosed with a massive abdominal tumor and endured numerous surgeries and rigorous chemotherapy before finally being declared cancer-free. But just to be sure, doctors encouraged Chris and his...

Pakistan: Muslims crowd into mosques, “We don’t believe in coronavirus, we believe in Allah” MAR 29, 2020 2:00 PM BY ROBERT SPENCER This piety endangers all the people with whom these mosque goers come into contact. “‘We don’t believe in corona, we believe in Allah’: In Pak, people continue praying in mosques,” AFP, March 28, 2020 (thanks to The Religion of Peace): Islamabad, March 28: Worshippers crowded into mosques in Pakistan on Friday, defying warnings about the fast-spreading coronavirus and fuelling fears of a public health crisis in the impoverished country. In contrast to many other Muslim countries, Pakistani clerics...

At a coronavirus task force briefing on Sunday, President Trump announced the social distancing guidelines aimed at slowing the spread of the coronavirus will be extended to April 30th.  "We will be extending our guidelines to April 30th to slow the spread," Trump said Sunday in the Rose Garden. The extension was announced after the president said the peak death rate in the United States for the coronavirus is expected to hit in two weeks, according to models of the virus.  "Nothing would be worse than declaring victory before the victory is won," Trump said. "That would be the greatest loss...

If you’re rich and famous, there’s a much better chance that you’ll land an elusive COVID-19 test. If you’re an average Joe, well, good luck. “It’s the wild, wild West out there,” Dr. Edward Goldberg, a Manhattan internist said. “There’s very little unified messaging and when that happens, the rich and privileged jump the line. And the rules about testing keep changing and they differ state to state — and country by country.” Everyone from Bravo host Andy Cohen, Tom Hanks, Rita Wilson, Prince Charles, Prince Albert of Monaco, Placido Domingo, Debi Mazar, Jackson Browne, Idris Elba, UK Prime Minister...

QUEENS — Brian Zupanick, who marked his 39th birthday alone Sunday, couldn’t believe his ears when a doctor called him from Mount Sinai Hospital in Manhattan this weekend. The doctor had some positive news about his long-time partner, John Giarratano, who’d been placed on a ventilator for 13 days, after COVID-19 virus invaded Giarratano’s lungs. “He’s off the ventilator,” Brian Zupanick told PIX11 with jubilation, as we FaceTimed him to discuss his good piece of news. “I couldn’t ask for a better present, honestly.” Giarratano—a 42-year-old, freelance TV producer—was the first COVID-19 patient we profiled early last weekend. His partner,...

Trapped in the confines of four walls, springtime spent in quarantine can feel uninspiring, if not isolating. But as Gregory Chiate’s son looked outside his window in Marin County one recent morning, he realized he wasn’t alone. On top of a towering conifer outside perched a bald eagle: the first one his father had seen since they moved there 11 years ago. The birds have been making a comeback, according to Shannon Burke, an interpretive naturalist with Marin County Parks, though it’s not necessarily because the area has been deserted by people. (Coyotes are a different story in San Francisco.)...

Good video with the song.

(TNS) As the administration ramps up its response to the continuing spread of Wuhan coronavirus, President Donald Trump is becoming increasingly frustrated with the constant carping coming from (mostly) Democratic governors and mayors. Despite the fact that the government has stockpiled pandemic response supplies in warehouses around the country, anyone who’s been in government at the state or federal level for any length of time knows that it takes time, thanks to bureaucracy, for ‘things to happen’ like getting those supplies distributed. Not to mention the fact that America is a big place with 50 states and right now, pretty...